World War I Articles | The Western Front Association

Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.

'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt. H G Thorpe who died 24 M...

One of the illustrated WFA talks ('Six Months with the King’s (Liverpool) 1917-1918’) I’ve given...

Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J. Hob...

In July 1916 the GOC II Anzac Corps, Lieutenant-General Sir A.J. Godley, ‘loaned’ his 5th Austral...

A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular O...

Recently, in a fit of tidy-mindedness, I went through my digital files to see if there was anythi...

The No. 2 Construction Battalion, CEF

On 5 July 1916, the No. 2 Construction Company of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was formed. It...

Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird

The Great War is seen as an event that marked and occasioned deep and lasting social change. Hist...

Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War

For many years, I have had in my sewing basket the buttons from the uniform of the South Irish Ho...

Five into four does go

For his book, The Kaiser’s Battle, Martin Middlebrook did some analysis of the British Expedition...

Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St. Augustine’s Chu...

The war memorial at St. Augustine’s of Hippo - parish church of Edgbaston, Birmingham – is intrig...

FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front

This article by Prof. Stephen Badsey first appeared in the December issue of Bulletin 123. This...

Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson

The concept of the ‘Pals’ battalions is familiar to people who are familiar with Britain’s part i...

McCudden meets the Red Baron

Whilst Manfred von Richtofen (the ‘Red Baron’) is the most famous flying ‘ace’ of the First World...

Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915

Launched in November 1898 and commissioned on 10 October 1901, HMS Formidable was the third ship...